Hi again,
 To add to my thread regarding the orioles and their nest; today I  
disassembled a portable greenhouse we had on our deck. It was held to the deck  
railing with a sisal twine, and after I removed the greenhouse, I took the  
leftover twine, cut off the knots and asked my daughter to throw it out to see  
if the orioles would take it. Later in the afternoon we noticed the female 
was  in the vegetable garden picking at the twine on my pea towers (I have 
tepee-like  structures with twine wrapped around them for the peas to climb). 
We walked over  to the garden and picked up the twine my daughter had 
thrown out, and unwrapped  it into individual strands, throwing it along the 
fence and into the garden,  then walked back up and sat on the deck. A short 
while later, the female oriole  came back down, tugged briefly at the pea twine 
again, then located the strands  we had left her. She then continued to 
pick these up and was using them in her  nest. The ultimate in recycling!
 
And regarding my note on calling them the Alpha orioles; both the male and  
female of this pair are very brightly marked individuals. The male is 
nearly  fluorescent, and the female is so heavily marked that at first I thought 
she was  a male. She has a dull but nearly fully black head, and is more 
strongly marked  that the adult female in the big Sibley guide. A truly 
beautiful pair!

Rick Sussman
Woodbine,MD
 
 
In a message dated 5/17/2009 8:51:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
 writes:

And we  have been watching a beautiful pair of (Alpha) Baltimore Orioles   
building a nest in another cherry tree in our yard, very close to our  
fence, 
but  low enough to nearly  touch.


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